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A Few Things
1: Japanese TV and the mainstream modern culture it exhibits is in such a state: Most channels are centered around a vast array of young girls who force themselves to smile for the duration of the programme and say nothing but, "Cute!" and "Yes". In addition to the girls, there are so called "Famous people", who are sometimes deservedly so, but often not. There are some great reality shows and documentaries though, about poor families, the Japanese countryside, Blackmail TV,travelling abroad and some others but most are very depressing. The problem is that it's all the same! Every single programme features a nice looking but very empty headed girl, a guy who tells some jokes and a hell of a lot of exaggeration and noise and screaming and nonsense. What's wierd though is that, out of all the people I know, only I watch the stuff! But it is a scary thing really, Japanese TV. I suppose all TV has become like this: Entertainment for the lowest common denominator. But Japan, with its emphasis on consensus and the group, has gone too far! I'm giving up on Japanese TV : I'm going to cut down my viewing time to 10 hours a day...
2: Dood, was gunna write about 10 things but that TV subject got me excited and I wrote too much! My second thing is about meditation. Zazen isn't meditation. Meditation is where you focus the mind on an object or emotion. Zazen is just sitting, and letting the mind concentrate itself. It's an interesting thing though and I read a good quote today on the net by that Zen guy who lives in Tokyo, and he said something like: Meditation is like changing your rose-tinted glasses for violet ones; Zazen is doing away with the glasses all together! Like when in the Fight Club, Tyler burns Edward Norton's hand with the acid, Edward Norton starts to think of his cave and Tyler says, "NO!Here! Stay with the pain!"... I like that idea.
posted by PA on Thursday, May 27, 2004
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